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Just in case:

Suppose ~/example is your project public/www folder. Ssh into your server:

cd ~/example && mkdir .git && cd .git && git init --bare

open: code hooks/post-receive

add:

#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=~/example git checkout -f

chmod +x hooks/post-receive

The above will create a bare git repo in ~/example/.git folder. Add a post-receive executable hook and perform checkout into the example directory.

On local repo:

git remote add server ssh://my_user@my_server.com:/absolute_path/example/.git/
git push server +master:refs/heads/master